Reducing national sovereignty

Imposing international restraints on freedom of action of governments
Weakening power of nation-state

Description

Reducing national sovereignty involves transferring certain decision-making powers from individual nation-states to supranational or international bodies. This strategy aims to address global challenges—such as climate change, security threats, and economic instability—that transcend borders and require coordinated solutions. By harmonizing laws, standards, and policies, it seeks to remedy issues arising from fragmented governance, enhance collective action, and ensure more effective management of shared resources and responsibilities at the international level.

Claim

It is essential to impose international restraints on the freedom of action of individual governments. These must include restraints on the use of various protectionist measures, and their effective surveillance.

Nation states are a creature of the industrial era. Capitalism required political institutions large enough to oversee and secure broad geographical markets. Now that commerce is moving from the industrial age to the information age and from geography to cyberspace, spatially bound nation states are increasingly irrelevant and without a clearly defined mission.